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dual boot error while parsing number when select Windows

Asked by Bob Pearson

I have made 2 machines dual boot today, both with 2 hard drives, both have Windows on the slave drive and Ubuntu on the master drive. One machine works fine, but the other does not. I get error while parsing number when I select Windows XP from the grub loader on the one machine. I have changed menu.lst as follows in both machines:
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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Bob Pearson (admin-bpcsbromyard) said : 		#2

I am sorry, but I have not been able to visit that customer as she has been away on holiday. She comes back today, I will try to look at it tomorrow or Monday.

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Bob Pearson (admin-bpcsbromyard) said : 		#3

Someone on the LinuxQuestions.org forum has solved the problem for me. There was a partition on the drive that shouldn't have been there.